Ester Wier

{{Infobox writer

|name=Ester Wier

|birth_date=October 17, 1910

|birth_place=United States

|death_date={{death date and age|2000|01|06|1910|10|17}}

|death_place=United States

|language=English

|genre=Fiction, children's literature

}}

Ester Wier (October 17, 1910 – January 6, 2000) was an American writer.{{cite web|website=Goodreads|title=The Loner|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/720533.The_Loner}}

She was born Esther Catherine Wier to Robert A. and Lydia (née Harshberger) Alberti in Seattle, Washington.{{cite web|publisher=FamilySearch|title=Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TX-G9M1-K?cc=3418468}} She married Henry Robert Wier, a naval officer, in 1934,{{cite web|publisher=University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collections|title=Ester Wier Papers|url=https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3211}} Her first books used her experiences traveling as a naval wife. She took a workshop at George Washington University which led to her writing for children.{{cite web|publisher=Library of Congress Authorities|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n50015709|title=LCCN Permalink n50015709}}

Bibliography

Answer Book on Naval Social Customs, 1956 (with Dorothy Coffin Hickey)
Answer Book on Air Force Social Customs, 1957
Army Social Customs, 1958
What Every Air Force Wife Should Know, 1958
The Loner, 1963
Gift of the Mountains, 1963
The Rumptydoolers, 1964
Easy Does It, 1965
The Barrel, 1966
The Space Hut, 1967
The Wind Chasers, 1967
Action at Paradise Marsh, 1968
The Winners, 1968
The Long Year, 1969
The Straggler: Adventures of a Sea Bird, 1970
The White Oak, 1971
The Partners, 1972
The Hunting Trail, 1974
King of the Mountain, 1975

References

External links

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[https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3211 Archival collections relating to Ester Wier]

Category:American children's writers

Category:Newbery Honor winners

Category:1910 births

Category:2000 deaths